Is he operating outside the Aristotelian mainstream?
No, I kind of agree with that, though I don’t think he knows what he’s getting himself into. An appeal to intuitions doesn’t take Aristotle out of the objective morality game, and the ‘function argument’ is pretty preliminary.
Aristotle’s ethics is monumentally, catastrophically evil. I think it’s also the perhaps the only real ethical theory we’ve ever come up with, which is a problem. Aristotle isn’t okay with slavery, he positively argues for it. He would say that if we didn’t have slavery, we should start, because slavery is a good thing. He thinks infanticide is a reasonable way to deal with population issues because children are ethically valueless. He is super evil.
No, I kind of agree with that, though I don’t think he knows what he’s getting himself into. An appeal to intuitions doesn’t take Aristotle out of the objective morality game, and the ‘function argument’ is pretty preliminary.
Aristotle’s ethics is monumentally, catastrophically evil. I think it’s also the perhaps the only real ethical theory we’ve ever come up with, which is a problem. Aristotle isn’t okay with slavery, he positively argues for it. He would say that if we didn’t have slavery, we should start, because slavery is a good thing. He thinks infanticide is a reasonable way to deal with population issues because children are ethically valueless. He is super evil.